I will perform a developmental and structural edit to make your writing shine

As a published author and a keen student of the craft, I know what it takes to make your manuscript shine. I specialise in Thriller, Sci-Fi, Action, YA, Literary & Horror genres, and I can provide a sample edit.

I'll provide an honest comprehensive overall report as well as exhaustive in-line comments, written as I read, covering items such as

• Opening chapter: I'll pay extra attention to your all important opening, offering feedback to help snare publishers, agents, or readers.
• Voice, tone, dialogue: Is it consistent, believable, and appropriate?
• Foreshadowing, theme, metaphor: I'll assess and advise how to strengthen.
• Story Structure: I'll analyse this, highlight any structural issues and offer ideas to improve and fix structure. I'm familiar with outlines / beat sheets like Save the Cat & Hero's Journey, The Foolscap Method. I can recommend how these could be used to improve your structure.
• Characters & character arcs: Are they satisfying and believable?
• Climax: Does your manuscript have a satisfying third act?
• Marketability: I'll assess likely avenues to publishing.

For line-editing, please see my other gig listings.